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Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.Stephens, Robert Neilson

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Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

Name: Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.
Author: Stephens, Robert Neilson

Stephens, Robert Neilson

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PHILIP WINWOOD

  "The bravest are the tenderest."

                               BAYARD TAYLOR.

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Works of ROBERT NEILSON STEPHENS

      An Enemy to the King
      (Twenty-sixth Thousand)

      The Continental Dragoon
      (Seventeenth Thousand)

      The Road to Paris
      (Sixteenth Thousand)

      A Gentleman Player
      (Thirty-fifth Thousand)

      Philip Winwood
      (Fiftieth Thousand)

L.C. Page and Company, Publishers (Incorporated)
212 Summer St., Boston, Mass.

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PHILIP WINWOOD

A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of
Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the
Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in
War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

Presented Anew by

Robert Neilson Stephens

Author of _A Gentleman Player_, _An Enemy to the King_, _The
Continental Dragoon_, _The Road to Paris_, etc.

Illustrated by E. W. D. Hamilton

Boston: L.C. Page & Company (Incorporated)

1900

[Illustration: CAPTAIN PHILIP WINWOOD.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

    I. PHILIP'S ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK

   II. THE FARINGFIELDS

  III. WHEREIN 'TIS SHOWN THAT BOYS ARE BUT BOYS

   IV. HOW PHILIP AND I BEHAVED AS RIVALS IN LOVE

    V. WE HEAR STARTLING NEWS, WHICH BRINGS ABOUT A
       FAMILY "SCENE"

   VI. NED COMES BACK, WITH AN INTERESTING TALE OF A
       FORTUNATE IRISHMAN

  VII. ENEMIES IN WAR

 VIII. I MEET AN OLD FRIEND IN THE DARK

   IX. PHILIP'S ADVENTURES--CAPTAIN FALCONER COMES
       TO TOWN

    X. A FINE PROJECT

   XI. WINWOOD COMES TO SEE HIS WIFE

  XII. THEIR INTERVIEW

 XIII. WHEREIN CAPTAIN WINWOOD DECLINES A PROMOTION

  XIV. THE BAD SHILLING TURNS UP ONCE MORE IN
       QUEEN STREET

   XV. IN WHICH THERE IS A FLIGHT BY SEA, AND A DUEL
       BY MOONLIGHT

  XVI. FOLLOWS THE FORTUNES OF MADGE AND NED

 XVII. I HEAR AGAIN FROM WINWOOD

XVIII. PHILIP COMES AT LAST TO LONDON

  XIX. WE MEET A PLAY-ACTRESS THERE

   XX. WE INTRUDE UPON A GENTLEMAN AT A COFFEE-HOUSE

  XXI. THE LAST, AND MOST EVENTFUL, OF THE HISTORY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CAPTAIN PHILIP WINWOOD                            Frontispiece

"OUR MOTIONS, AS WE TOUCHED OUR LIPS WITH THEM, WERE
SO IN UNISON THAT MARGARET LAUGHED"

"SHE WAS INDEED THE TOAST OF THE ARMY"

"'HE IS A--AN ACQUAINTANCE'"

"HE FINALLY DREW BACK TO GIVE HER A MORE EFFECTUAL BLOW"

"IT WAS PHILIP'S CUSTOM, AT THIS TIME, TO ATTEND FIRST
NIGHTS AT THE PLAYHOUSES"

CHAPTER I.

Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

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